Matt Downey

AgenticDesigner

Hey, I’m Matt. Currently, I’m the Head of Design at Atlas UP. I also publish Digital Native, the newsletter for designers in the AI era.

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  1. A skateboarding swamp monster with a crystal pyramid hovering abovePlayground4d ago
  2. This was a really fun sref, thanks for sharing @gnrlyxyzX4d ago
  3. Design Systems Are Now Infrastructure for AINewsletter#1626d ago
  4. Gal "quits design" because Fable made a logo he says he wouldn't have come up with himself. Dylan rides in to remind everyone design still matters. The comments turn into designers asking Figma to promise everything will be okay. Meanwhile @figma is betting its own future on AI progress. Yes, the bar moved. Fast. So buckle down. Learn the tools. Take the taste everyone keeps calling "the only moat left" and actually build something with it. There has never been more leverage for designers willing to dive in and learn.X1w ago
  5. There's so much talk about taste being the final frontier in a world of agentic design. But 99% of my design happens in code now. Which means the libraries I choose, the components I build, and effort put into enforcing uniformity and structure... that's a taste call, too.X1w ago
  6. Portrait of an Indian Sadhu manPlayground1w ago
  7. Either the @openai hype machine is finely tuned (probably) or GPT-5.6 is going to be one of the best releases yet. Looking forward to testing it out tomorrow.X1w ago

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